Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Text Grab
Copy any text you see on screen
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Text Grab launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.
2017 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TextSnatcher▲64How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher
2022 · textsnatcher.rf.gd · its alternatives →
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Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Copied▲162Instant Text Access, Easy Copy-Paste, and Organized Snippets
2024 · copiedpro.com · its alternatives →
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Instant OCR, Clipboard History
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Magic Copy▲169Magically share text & links across your devices ✨
2018 · magiccopy.app · its alternatives →
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Textify▲202macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Copy Text Easily▲104A handy tool to copy text & sentences just by hovering mouse
2022 · devapt.com · its alternatives →
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GetIpsum▲79Menu bar placeholder text generator for digital creatives
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Vizion▲3Copy text from images, pdfs & system user interface
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Make anything selectable
May 2026 · selectable.so · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made CopyLasso for text you can see but can't select: things like scanned PDFs, text in videos, and text in screenshots. I was surprised to find only a few solutions for this that were all paid, so I made a free and open source version. CopyLasso is a native Swift app built with ScreenCaptureKit and Apple Vision. It's MIT-licensed, signed, and notarized. To use it, just press your keybind and draw a bounding box around the text you want to copy. The text is recognized locally and copied to your clipboard. Other features include copying QR codes and barcodes, multi-language…
Aug 2026 · copylasso.com · its alternatives →
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1. Click capture text 2. Select an area on screen with text 3. Paste the text anywhere Are there other solutions out there? Yes, the best one that I've found is Text Sniper, it $8 so I decided to learn SwiftUI and release Text Capture for $0.99. This one uses MacOS builtin Vision API under the hood so it should also improve with new macOS releases. Would love to hear your feedback!
2024 · textcapture.app · its alternatives →
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Extract text from books or screenshots, make notes & learn
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Copy text from an image with high accuracy
2023 · imagetotext.info · its alternatives →
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